David Kipping

Organic molecules are common.

I mean, we never touched a protein anywhere.

So there's a big step.

You know, you've got the jigsaw pieces, but no one has seen the jigsaw pieces magically arrange themselves into the right position.

Right.

Yeah, it's plausible.

I don't know how likely it is for the Earth because it doesn't really help, I don't think, in any meaningful way.

So maybe you'd say that it depends what you're talking about, panspermia between star systems or panspermia just between the planets in the solar system.

Oh, yeah, this was 67P.

Yeah, the Rosetta mission landed on Comet 67P, yeah.

That is so crazy.

Look at all that dust coming off the thing.

That's what's happening to Atlas right now.

If you could go on the surface of Atlas, it would probably look something like that.

It's so wild.

It's so wild when you realize these things are real.

You look at the images of the Mars landers or landing on Titan.

You realize this isn't something you look through a telescope for the first time.

You see Saturn.

You're like, this isn't fiction.